Garden Gab, week 21….a cool down, a loss and a nursery rhyme

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row,
And pretty maids all in a row.

That’s how the nursery rhyme goes, however I was disturbed when I looked up the meaning of the rhyme. It’s about Queen Mary, torture and executions.

While torture would accurately describe the weather here in Texas the last month or so, it does not really describe gardening at all does it?

Or maybe it does.

No, No, No…..I love gardening. I love the beautiful green plants. I love planting a seed and watching it grow into a beautiful plant. I love knowing I am growing things that help to feed my family and friends.

Bugs and heat be damned, I love gardening.

Anyhoo.

My garden is doing well……..

The okra is blooming and blooming. I’ve got tons of little okra-ettes.

The new bean plants are doing very well, green and blooming and lovely.

My mint is surviving the heat.

The carrots are still growing.

I lost my green pepper plant to the extreme heat, but the Hot peppers are doing well.

Strawberrytopia is still expanding. I think the strawberries would be happy to take over the entire raised garden! They don’t produce many strawberries, but they sure do spread quickly.

The squash seedlings are still surviving the heat. I failed to take a picture of them though.

Lots of the old English nursery rhymes are a bit creepy when you look at them (Ring a Ring of Roses is about the plague for example)! The garden is looking fab, must take a few snaps of mine. Love the okra-ettes🙂 Have a fab weekend yourself!

Ours is not growing well, except for the tomatoes. The Midwest got a bum deal this summer. June was cold (like hats to soccer camp cold) and wet which killed a lot of plants and than it got stupid, Texas like hot for two-three weeks with no rain at all. Now for the last 3 weeks we have gotten record rainfall. My poor garden is a mess.

Yeah, my garden is struggling some too. Lost a couple of plants. I have other plants but they haven’t produced any fruit or veggies yet but my little jalepeno plant sprouted 2 peppers. I’m looking into doing raised garden beds next year….